The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-05
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
Eight Thousand People Witness the Defeat
of Brooklyn by the Louisville Club.


tramped through the dust TO Ridgewood Park
to-day to see the Brooklyns defeat the Louis
vile club, but they were doomed to disappoint-
ment for the tables turned and the Louis
villes won easily, hitting Porter when and where
they liked. Brooklyn played a short-stop,
Otterson. He is young and inexperienced, but
he played fairly well. Today's game was the
first time he has faced pitcher like Hecker.
and he could not hit him. White made Judi
error in the first inning Mcclellan was
On first and started to second McTammanys
erounder. which White had got White started to
make a double play, but changed his
mind and threw to Mack, who
ducked his head, thinging some
else was behind him. Mack had left the base
when White started in to make the double.
Terry made three Dagger in the second inning
and made a with the help of very pretty
hit by Peoples. In the third inning Terry made
s se spbsdes H. the OUT second 'er onins
Browning hit a liner over McClelan's
head. and Swartwood, who got it, was slow in
banding it that Browning went to second.
That will just cost him a ten-dollar BILL" said
Manager Byrne. savagely. He relented. how
ever, when the big right fielder made a three
Dagger in the next inning. The Brooklyns were
ahead till the fifth inning, when the visitors got
on to Porter and hit him for FIVE runs. Nc
Quade umpired the game to the satisfaction of
ALL Score:
R h112nKP .......o 3 2 ID 10
Earned runs--,IBrooklyn,,,, z Louisville. z; Two:
smartwood, Terry ~. Stolen bases-phiiiips,
Werrick. Donhle plays-Otterson, Mcclellan and
and Mack First base on balis-Swartwood ~. Col
ms, Kerins Errors-Brooklyn. 10; louisville,
a. First base errors-Brooklyr, a; Louis
Vile 3. Struck out-Brooklyn, 4: Louisville, 3.
Passed bal-Peopes, /. Wild Pitches-Porter. 1.
Hecker l. Time-1;5o. Umpire-McQuade.
Playing Under Discouraeing circumstances.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The St. Louis and
Metropolitan clubs played postponed game to-
day at Weehawken, n. j. There were between
10000 and 13 900 spectators at Monitor Park.
and the crowd used the field much as the
players. When the game opened the mob
had invaded the playing ground, and neither
first third base could be seen from the
grand-stand The insurgents were little less
aggressive all around the field. An inning
played under those conditions, and Umpire
Ferguson said that no baseball could be played
with such surroundings. The St. Louis men
got in their carriages and drove about the
groun DIS asking the gang to 'please dis
perse," but the gang did not Then
one of the horses that had brought the Browns
from New York detached from one of the
carriages and ridden into the crowd on all sides
with little effect. After half hour of
that kind of business Ferguson refused to order
the game again. and Joe Battin was called to
nil his place. Battin told the men to 60 ahead
and they did for five innings. when dark
ness made a stoppage necessary The reporters
had sit in the sitting grand stand, where no
effort was made by the authorities to prevent
people from standing in front of them. Therefore,
accurate score could not be kept 1t was a
miserable game, no batter being allowed more
than a SINCE base any hit that went into or
past the crowd. The only brilliant play
py Robinson who stopped hot grounder from
Jones and threw him out in the third inning.
In the fourth inning, ONeIll let his bat slip
from his hands and the stick hit WEIGH who
was standing behind O'Neill, full in the face,
knocking him insensibe for moment. ST.
Louis played with eight men after that.
Score:
Metropolitans. o s.
St. Louis. ..-----.-....---O L ! 4-16
Earned runs-St. Louis 8. Stolen bases-O' Brien,
Latham Robinson Neutrality-suspicious. IL; st.
Louis, 8. Double plays-Lynch. o Brien and Jones;
Gerhardt and Brlen; Boyle and Robinson First
base balls-Hogan ~, Boyle First base on
3; St. Louis, g.. Struck out
u shman CD. Gleason, Comiskey, Robinson Passed
Time-2:15. Umpires-Ferguson
and BATH